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These quotes/tweets are listed alphabetically by author and then date published. They are included here because, in my opinion, they can spark important reflection. Click on a quote image for further discussion.
Chris Hedges Barack Obama Mike Pence Marco Rubio Bernie Sanders Rick Scott Donald Trump
CHRIS HEDGES
”I do not believe that America will inevitably become a fascist state or that the Christian Right is the Nazi Party. But I do believe that the radical Christian Right is a sworn and potent enemy of the open society. Its ideology bears within it the tenets of a Christian fascism.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.
”In the event of a crisis, in the event of another catastrophic terrorist attack, an economic meltdown or huge environmental disaster, the movement stands poised to manipulate fear and chaos ruthlessly and reshape America in ways that have not been seen since the nation's founding.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.
”All Americans--not only those of faith--who care about our open society must learn to speak about this movement with a new vocabulary, to give up passivity, to challenge aggressively this movement's deluded appropriation of Christianity and to do everything possible to defend tolerance.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.
”The attacks by this movement on the rights and beliefs of Muslims, Jews, immigrants, gays, lesbians, women, scholars, scientists, those they dismiss as "nominal Christians," and those they brand with the curse of "secular humanist" are an attack on all of us, on our values, our freedoms and ultimately our democracy. Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.
